- Oncosperma (plant genus)
palm: Evolution: Livistona, Trachycarpus, and Oncosperma, existed in the United States, Canada, India, Europe, and China, many in places where palms do not occur today. These genera include members of groups considered primitive and specialized within the family and appear to represent an early burst of radiation and diversification.
- Oncosperma tigillarium (tree species)
palm: Distribution: …the western Malay Archipelago, where Oncosperma tigillarium and Calamus erinaceus (and, in Borneo, Daemonorops longispathus) are found. In the Amazon estuary Raphia taedigera covers extensive areas; other species of the raffia palm dominate similar habitats in West Africa. The raffia palm occurs in nearly pure stands between marsh and dicotyledonous…
- Ondaatje, Michael (Canadian writer)
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet whose musical prose and poetry are created from a blend of myth, history, jazz, memoirs, and other forms. Ondaatje is the youngest of four children born to Mervyn Ondaatje, the manager of a tea estate in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and
- Ondaatje, Philip Michael (Canadian writer)
Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet whose musical prose and poetry are created from a blend of myth, history, jazz, memoirs, and other forms. Ondaatje is the youngest of four children born to Mervyn Ondaatje, the manager of a tea estate in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and
- Ondangua (Namibia)
Ondangwa, settlement, northern Namibia, about 335 miles (540 km) north of Windhoek, the capital. In 1870, Onandjokue, near Ondangwa, was the site of the first Christian (Finnish Lutheran) mission in Owambo. The mission introduced Western health and educational institutions and trained the local
- Ondangwa (Namibia)
Ondangwa, settlement, northern Namibia, about 335 miles (540 km) north of Windhoek, the capital. In 1870, Onandjokue, near Ondangwa, was the site of the first Christian (Finnish Lutheran) mission in Owambo. The mission introduced Western health and educational institutions and trained the local
- Ondatra zibethicus (rodent)
muskrat, (Ondatra zibethicus), a large amphibious rodent indigenous to North America but found also in Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Siberia, adjacent areas of China and Mongolia, and Honshu Island in Japan. The muskrat is a robust vole weighing up to 1.8 kg (4 pounds). It has short legs and a compact
- ONDCP (United States government)
drug use: National controls: …to the creation of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The ONDCP establishes drug-control policy and sets national goals for reducing the illicit use and trafficking of drugs. It is also responsible for producing the National Drug Control Strategy (NDCS). The NDCS is designed to facilitate effective drug-control…
- Ondergang der eerste wareld, De (epic poem by Bilderdijk)
Willem Bilderdijk: …is the unfinished epic poem De ondergang der eerste wareld (1810; “The Destruction of the First World”), which dramatically portrays the primordial struggle between Cain’s son and the progeny of his daughters.
- Onderzoek en phantasie (essays by Geel)
Dutch literature: Romanticism: Although Jacob Geel’s essays in Onderzoek en phantasie (1838; “Inquiry and Fantasy”) set a new standard in philological and philosophical criticism in Dutch literature, Geel’s liberal rationalism was almost swept aside by the growing wave of Romanticism. Simultaneously, the freethinking born of the Enlightenment roused the militancy of the Calvinists,…
- ondes martenot (musical instrument)
ondes martenot, (French: “musical waves”), electronic musical instrument demonstrated in 1928 in France by the inventor Maurice Martenot. Oscillating radio tubes produce electric pulses at two supersonic sound-wave frequencies. They in turn produce a lower frequency within audible range that is
- ondes musicales (musical instrument)
ondes martenot, (French: “musical waves”), electronic musical instrument demonstrated in 1928 in France by the inventor Maurice Martenot. Oscillating radio tubes produce electric pulses at two supersonic sound-wave frequencies. They in turn produce a lower frequency within audible range that is
- Ondeto, Simeo (Kenyan religious leader)
Legio Maria: …Luo ethnic group in Kenya: Simeo Ondeto (died 1992), a catechist (religious teacher), and Gaundencia Aoko. Both claimed to have undergone prophetic experiences that invested them with divine authority and directed them to reject traditional magic and divine healers. Excommunicated for this, Ondeto and Aoko formed a new all-African church…
- Ondieki, Yobes (Kenyan athlete)
Yobes Ondieki is a Kenyan distance runner who surprised observers in 1993 by setting a world record in the 10,000 metres, an event he had not run on a track in 10 years. At the time, his performance was considered by some as the best distance race ever run. After attending Iowa State University,
- Ondine (film by Jordan [2009])
Neil Jordan: Other films: Jordan’s subsequent films include Ondine (2009), a fantasy in which a fisherman (Colin Farrell) catches a woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his net and begins to believe that she is a mythical creature, and the moody vampire thriller Byzantium (2012), starring Saoirse Ronan. He later helmed and cowrote Greta (2018),…
- Ondine (mythology)
undine, mythological figure of European tradition, a water nymph who becomes human when she falls in love with a man but is doomed to die if he is unfaithful to her. Derived from the Greek figures known as Nereids, attendants of the sea god Poseidon, Ondine was first mentioned in the writings of
- Ondine (ballet by Fonteyn)
Jean Giraudoux: …loves a mortal man as Ondine (1939).
- Ondioline (musical instrument)
electronic instrument: Post-World War II electronic instruments: …Martin’s Clavioline, and Georges Jenny’s Ondioline are examples of commercially produced monophonic (capable of generating only one note at a time) electronic instruments. These instruments used small keyboards and were designed to mount immediately under the keyboard of a piano. They were capable of simulating a wide variety of traditional…
- ondium martenot (musical instrument)
ondes martenot, (French: “musical waves”), electronic musical instrument demonstrated in 1928 in France by the inventor Maurice Martenot. Oscillating radio tubes produce electric pulses at two supersonic sound-wave frequencies. They in turn produce a lower frequency within audible range that is
- Ondo (Nigeria)
Ondo, town, Ondo state, southwestern Nigeria, at the southern edge of the Yoruba Hills (elevation 940 feet [287 m]) and the intersection of roads from Ife, Akure, and Okitipupa. A collecting point for cocoa and palm oil and kernels, it is a local market centre (yams, cassava [manioc], corn [maize],
- Ondo (state, Nigeria)
Ondo, state, western Nigeria. It was created out of former Ondo province of former Western state in 1976. It is bounded by the states of Kwara and Kogi on the north, Edo on the east, Delta on the southeast, and Osun and Ogun on the west and by the Bight of Benin of the Atlantic Ocean on the south.
- ondol (device)
Korea: The use of metals and the emergence of tribal states: …built on the ground, and ondol, a floor-heating device, was developed. The appearance of iron weapons, horse equipment, and coaches indicates that horses and chariots were employed in wars. Wiman (Wei Man in Chinese), said to have defected from China, became ruler of Gojoseon about 194 bce. More likely, he…
- Öndörhaan (Mongolia)
Öndörhaan, town, eastern Mongolia. Situated on the Kerulen River, 180 miles (290 km) east of Ulaanbaatar, the town lies at a major junction of transportation routes between Ulaanbaatar and Choybalsan. Coal mining is economically important; the coalfield in the Mörön River valley, 50 miles (80 km)
- One (song by Nilsson)
Harry Nilsson: Fame as songwriter and singer: …single from the album, “One” (the “beep, beep, beep” rhythm of which had been inspired by a telephone “busy” signal), became a huge hit in 1969 for the rock group Three Dog Night.
- one (number)
Middle Eastern religion: Association of religion with the arts and sciences: The most perfect number was one, for by advancing from zero to one men believed they proceeded from nonexistence to existence. Moreover, all other whole numbers were regarded as multiples of one, representative of the Creator, the Prime Mover, of the universe. The Egyptians called Re “the one One”; the…
- One Act doctrine (Quietism)
Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity: …his doctrine of the “One Act,” that is, the teaching that the will, once fixed on God in contemplative prayer, cannot lose its union with the divine. In France Mme Guyon and her adviser, François Fénelon, archbishop of Cambrai, were also condemned for Quietist tendencies emphasizing the role of…
- One and Only Dick Gregory, The (film by Gaines [2021])
Dick Gregory: The One and Only Dick Gregory, a documentary about his life and career, appeared in 2021.
- One and Only Ivan, The (film by Sharrock [2020])
Angelina Jolie: Film roles: … and 2016) as well as The One and Only Ivan (2020).
- One and Three Chairs (work by Kosuth)
Joseph Kosuth: …created his first conceptual work, One and Three Chairs, which displayed an actual chair, its photograph, and a text with the definition of the word chair. This work was a milestone in the development of Western art, and it started a trend that favoured the idea or the concept of…
- One Beat (album by Sleater-Kinney)
Sleater-Kinney: One Beat (2002) proved to be an even more expansive affair, incorporating classic rock song structures as well as instruments such as horns and synthesizers. Tucker’s lyrics drew inspiration from her newfound role as a mother, as well as the aftermath of the September 11…
- One Bermuda Alliance (political party, Bermuda)
Bermuda: History of Bermuda: In the 2012 elections the One Bermuda Alliance (OBA)—formed the previous year through the merger of the UBP and another opposition party, the Bermuda Democratic Alliance—won a decisive majority. Its leader, Craig Cannonier, took office as premier. Cannonier resigned abruptly in May 2014 in the wake of a scandal involving…
- One Big Union (Canadian labor organization)
organized labour: Challenges to pure-and-simple unionism: This was the One Big Union (OBU), which had its roots in a postwar labour disaffection from conventional trade unionism that was especially pronounced in western Canada. Structured more along geographic than along the industrial-union lines of the IWW, the OBU had its moment of glory in the…
- One Day (film by Scherfig [2011])
Anne Hathaway: The Princess Diaries, Brokeback Mountain, and The Devil Wears Prada: …starred in the romantic drama One Day the following year.
- One Day at a Time (Web series)
Rita Moreno: …a Cuban American family in One Day at a Time (2017–20), a remake of Norman Lear’s 1970s sitcom of the same name; the series originally aired on Netflix, but after three seasons it moved to Pop TV for a short run.
- One Day at a Time (American television series [1975–84])
Norman Lear: …created were Maude (1972–78) and One Day at a Time (1975–84); the latter series returned—with various changes—in 2017. Sanford and Son, Good Times (1974–79), and The Jeffersons, a spin-off of All in the Family, were significant in their depictions of African American family life. Lear also produced such films as…
- One Day in October (novel by Hoel)
Sigurd Hoel: …En dag i oktober (1931; One Day in October), in which the inhabitants of an Oslo apartment building are deeply affected by the tragic life and death of a fellow lodger. In this novel Hoel made extended use of interior monologues. Hoel was a close friend of the Austrian psychologist…
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (novel by Solzhenitsyn)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, short novel by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in Russian in 1962 as Odin den Ivana Denisovicha in the Soviet literary magazine Novy Mir and published in book form the following year. Solzhenitsyn’s first literary work—a treatment of his experiences in the
- One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (album by New York Dolls)
the New York Dolls: …entered the studio to produce One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This (2006), the first collection of new Dolls material to appear since 1974. The tour that followed demonstrated that this second incarnation of the Dolls had the same sort of energy as the first, and the…
- One Day of the Week, The (work by Sánchez Ferlosio)
Spanish literature: The novel: The One Day of the Week), masterfully utilizing pseudoscientific impassivity and cinematographic techniques, depicts the monotonous existence of urban youth via their aimless conversations and exposes postwar apathy. Other young writers who first emerged in the 1950s were Jesús Fernández Santos, Juan García Hortelano, Jesús…
- One Day: A Poem in Three Parts, The (work by Hall)
Donald Hall: The book-length The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts (1988), considered his masterpiece, is an intricate meditation on middle age. White Apples and the Taste of Stone (2006) is a collection of poetry from across his career.
- One Direction (British-Irish vocal group)
One Direction, British-Irish male vocal group whose stylish good looks and bright pop-rock sound helped make it one of the best-selling boy bands of all time. One Direction released five hit albums, including Up All Night (2011) and Midnight Memories (2013), before going on an indefinite hiatus in
- One Dollar Campaign Complex (lodging facility, Kigali, Rwanda)
Hope Hostel, a four-story lodging facility located in Kigali, Rwanda. It opened in October 2014 to house college students who had been orphaned after their parents were killed during the Rwandan genocide of 1994; it provided a place for them to reside when school was not in session. In 2022 the
- One False Move (film by Franklin ]1992])
neo-noir: …racism, including Carl Franklin in One False Move (1992), about three fugitives on the run from Los Angeles to small-town Arkansas. In Franklin’s stylish murder mystery Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), the protagonist is a Black private eye (played by Denzel Washington) investigating the disappearance of a femme fatale…
- One Fat Englishman (novel by Amis)
Kingsley Amis: …were expressed in the novel One Fat Englishman (1963).
- One Final Firecracker (work by Maguire)
Gregory Maguire: …Hairdos (1997) and finishing with One Final Firecracker (2005). Later children’s books include What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy (2007) and Egg & Spoon (2014). In Cress Watercress (2022) a young bunny deals with the loss of her father.
- One Fine Day (film by Hoffman [1996])
Robert Klein: Music and acting: (1978), Radioland Murders (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Primary Colors (1998), The Safety of Objects (2001), Two Weeks Notice (2002), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), Ira & Abby (2006), Reign Over Me (2007), The Back-up Plan (2010), and
- One Fine Day (song by Goffin and King)
Carole King: Roof” (1962; the Drifters), “One Fine Day” (1963; the Chiffons), “Don’t Bring Me Down” (1966; the Animals), and “(You Make Me Feel like) A Natural Woman” (1967; Aretha Franklin).
- One Flea Spare (play by Wallace)
American literature: The Off-Broadway ascendancy: …a preacher; poet Naomi Wallace’s One Flea Spare (1995), set in London during the Great Plague of 1665; and Margaret Edson’s Wit (1995), about the slow, poignant cancer death of a literary scholar whose life has been shaped by the eloquence and wit of Metaphysical poetry.
- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (novel by Kesey)
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, debut novel by Ken Kesey, first published in 1962. At a Veterans Administration hospital in Menlo Park, California, Kesey had been a paid volunteer and experimental subject, taking mind-altering drugs such as LSD and recording their effects, and this experience and
- One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film by Forman [1975])
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest , American dramatic film, released in 1975, that was based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The movie, directed by Miloš Forman and starring Jack Nicholson, was the first film since It Happened One Night (1934) to win the Academy Awards for best
- One Foot in Heaven (film by Rapper [1941])
Irving Rapper: Heyday at Warner Brothers: Even better was One Foot in Heaven (1941), a bit of Americana with Fredric March as a minister who struggles with the problems of church and state. The Gay Sisters (1942), though, was a leaden soap opera starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fitzgerald, and Nancy Coleman as wealthy siblings. Now,…
- One for the Money (film by Robinson [2012])
Janet Evanovich: …Money (1994; television movie 2002; film 2012). The novel centred on Stephanie Plum—a gum-smacking Jersey girl—who blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into hiring her to track down bail jumpers (though she has never done so before). Aided by an eclectic cast of wisecracking friends and relatives, Plum sets off in…
- One for the Money (novel by Evanovich)
Janet Evanovich: …on the story that became One for the Money (1994; television movie 2002; film 2012). The novel centred on Stephanie Plum—a gum-smacking Jersey girl—who blackmails her bail bondsman cousin into hiring her to track down bail jumpers (though she has never done so before). Aided by an eclectic cast of…
- One for Violin (work by Paik)
Western painting: Institutional critique, feminism, and conceptual art: 1968 and its aftermath: Korean-born artist Nam June Paik’s One for Violin of 1962 consisted of him simply raising a violin above his head and slamming it down onto a table with full force. In the wake of Fluxus, the mid-1970s saw an extremely fertile network of conceptually oriented artists become established. The previous…
- One from the Heart (film by Coppola [1982])
Francis Ford Coppola: The 1980s: …first film—the Coppola-written and -directed One from the Heart (1982), an ultra-stylized romantic comedy—cost some $27 million to make and crashed at the box office. Coppola was forced to sell many of his assets and to close the studio in Los Angeles, though he continued to operate his production company…
- one gene–one enzyme hypothesis (biology)
one gene–one enzyme hypothesis, idea advanced in the early 1940s that each gene controls the synthesis or activity of a single enzyme. The concept, which united the fields of genetics and biochemistry, was proposed by American geneticist George Wells Beadle and American biochemist Edward L. Tatum,
- One Good Turn (novel by Atkinson)
Kate Atkinson: …books in the series included One Good Turn (2006), When Will There Be Good News? (2008), Started Early, Took My Dog (2010), and Big Sky (2019).
- One Heart (album by Dion)
Céline Dion: Career hiatus, Las Vegas residencies, and collaborations: …Day Has Come (2002) and One Heart (2003), which flirted with dance pop in addition to her usual adult contemporary fare. While the releases were commercially successful by most standards, their sales did not reach Dion’s previous heights. In 2003 she began performing a live show in Las Vegas, which…
- One Hour Photo (film by Romanek [2002])
Robin Williams: …stalks a suburban family in One Hour Photo (2002). A 2002 stand-up performance led to the hugely successful Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002), which was released as both an album and a video. He later portrayed Teddy Roosevelt in the comedy Night at the Museum (2006) and two sequels…
- One Hour with You (film by Lubitsch [1932])
George Cukor: Early life and work: …Jeanette MacDonald–Maurice Chevalier musical romance One Hour with You (1932), only to have Lubitsch return and take over. When Lubitsch ended up with the director credit over Cukor’s objections, Cukor left Paramount to join RKO and producer David O. Selznick, whom he had known in New York. There he made…
- one hundred (numeral system)
number symbolism: 100: Because our notational system for numbers is decimal (base 10), the number 100 takes on a significance that it would probably not possess if we employed other systems of notation. It is a round number and holds hints of perfection. The Western calendar is…
- One Hundred and One Dalmatians (American animated film [1961])
One Hundred and One Dalmatians, American animated film, released in 1961, that became a Walt Disney classic, especially known for the villainous character Cruella De Vil. When dalmatians Pongo and Perdita have 15 puppies, Cruella De Vil attempts to buy them from their owners, a composer and his
- One Hundred and One Nights (film by Varda [1995])
Agnès Varda: …nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995; One Hundred and One Nights), about an old man with a love for movies. Many of her later credits were documentaries, notably Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse (2000; The Gleaners and I), an intimate look at French country life; Les Plages d’Agnès (2008; The Beaches…
- One Hundred and Twenty Days of Sodom (work by Sade)
120 Days of Sodom, a sexually explicit account of several months of debauchery, written in 1785 in French as Cent vingt journées de Sodome, ou l’école du libertinage by the Marquis de Sade while he was imprisoned in the Bastille. It was not published until 1904. The book tells the infamous tale of
- One Hundred Live and Die (work by Nauman)
Bruce Nauman: …large wall installations such as One Hundred Live and Die (1984) impassively play out both the inevitability and the vacancy of language. Nauman also developed an interest in using casts of taxidermy forms to create variously stacked assemblages or mobiles of wild deer, foxes, caribou, and other animals, sometimes dismembered…
- One Hundred Million Million Poems (work by Queneau)
French literature: Postwar poetry: …mille milliards de poèmes (1961; One Hundred Million Million Poems), the reader was invited to rearrange 10 sonnets in all the variations possible, as indicated by the title. OuLiPo’s attachment to the serious pleasures of word games, and their engagement in sometimes unbelievably demanding forms, has perhaps its best illustration…
- One Hundred New Tales, The (French literature)
French literature: Prose literature: 1465; The One Hundred New Tales), loosely modeled on the work of Giovanni Boccaccio, are more in the spirit of the fabliaux, though written for the Burgundian court.
- One Hundred Views of Edo (work by Hiroshige)
Hiroshige: 1837), and One Hundred Views of Edo (1856–58). He repeatedly executed new designs of the 53 Tōkaidō views in which he employed his unused sketches of previous years.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (novel by García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude, novel by Gabriel García Márquez, published in Spanish as Cien años de soledad in 1967. It is considered the author’s masterpiece and the foremost example of his style of magic realism. “Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aurelio Buendía was to
- One IBM Plaza (building, Chicago, Illinois, United States)
AMA Plaza, a 52-story skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, U.S., designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1972. It is a towering example of both the International Style and the elegant pin-striped steel-and-glass buildings Mies crafted in the postwar era. Rising on a narrow site
- One in a Million (film by Lanfield [1936])
Sidney Lanfield: Films of the 1930s: The popular musical comedy One in a Million (1936) was Norwegian skating star Sonja Henie’s first Hollywood film; Don Ameche played her love interest, and Menjou was cast as a Florenz Ziegfeld-like character. Lanfield and Faye reteamed for Wake Up and Live (1937), a satire about a mock feud…
- One Kind Flavor (album by King [2008])
B.B. King: …returned to his roots with One Kind Favor (2008), a collection of songs from the 1940s and ’50s including blues classics by the likes of John Lee Hooker and Lonnie Johnson. Joining King in the simple four-part arrangements on the T-Bone Burnett-produced album were stalwart New Orleans pianist Dr. John,…
- One L: What They Really Teach You at Harvard Law School (work by Turow)
Scott Turow: …he published a nonfiction work, One L: What They Really Teach You at Harvard Law School (1977), that is considered a classic for law students. His first novel, Presumed Innocent (1987; film 1990 and TV miniseries 2024), was written while he was working as an assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago…
- One Laptop per Child (nonprofit organization)
Yves Béhar: …Negroponte and his nonprofit organization One Laptop per Child (OLPC).
- One Life to Live (American television soap opera)
American Broadcasting Company: Focus on television: …long-running daytime dramas such as One Life to Live (1968–2012) and General Hospital (1963– ).
- One Life: My Mother’s Story (work by Grenville)
Kate Grenville: …the Secret River (2006) and One Life: My Mother’s Story (2015).
- One Man, One Matchet (novel by Aluko)
T.M. Aluko: A second novel, One Man, One Matchet (1964), humorously presents the clash of an inexperienced district officer with an unscrupulous politician. Kinsman and Foreman (1966) incorporates Aluko’s professional experiences into a penetrating study of an idealistic young engineer’s battle against the corrupt practices of his highly respected public…
- One Man, One Wife (novel by Aluko)
T.M. Aluko: Aluko’s One Man, One Wife (1959), a satirical novel about the conflict of Christian and Yoruba ethics, relates the disillusionment of a village community with the tenets of missionary Christianity. A second novel, One Man, One Matchet (1964), humorously presents the clash of an inexperienced district…
- One Man, Two Guvnors (play by Bean)
James Corden: …with the National Theatre’s hit One Man, Two Guvnors, an English-language adaptation of the 18th-century Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni’s comedy Il servitore di due padroni. One Man, Two Guvnors—which featured physical comedy, improvisations, audience participation, and skiffle-style music—moved to the West End the following September and to Broadway in April…
- One May Spin a Thread Too Finely (play by Turgenev)
Ivan Turgenev: Early life and works: …intimately penetrating character, such as One May Spin a Thread Too Finely (1848), led to the detailed psychological studies in his dramatic masterpiece, A Month in the Country (1855). This was not staged professionally until 1872. Without precedent in the Russian theatre, it required for its appreciation by critics and…
- One Million Years B.C. (film by Chaffey [1966])
Ray Harryhausen: …Argonauts (1963), and Hammer Films’ One Million Years B.C. (1966). He was well known for the Sinbad films: The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), his first colour feature; The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973); and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). He also created the special effects for…
- One More Time (film by Lewis [1970])
Jerry Lewis: …also directed the comic mystery One More Time (1970), starring Peter Lawford and Sammy Davis, Jr., the only film Lewis directed without also acting in it.
- One Nation (political party, Australia)
Australia: The advent of multicultural society: …the formation of the anti-immigrant One Nation Party in the late 1990s. Although the party’s success was limited, its position resonated with some Australian voters.
- One New York Night (film by Conway [1935])
Jack Conway: Heyday of the 1930s: …Carole Lombard, but the comedy One New York Night (1935) received generally positive reviews.
- One Night in Miami (film by King [2020])
Regina King: …debut as a director with One Night in Miami (2020).
- One Night… (play by Fuller)
Charles Fuller: …the military, Fuller later wrote One Night… (2013), about a female soldier who was raped by fellow servicemen while stationed in Iraq. He also penned the children’s book Snatch: The Adventures of David and Me in Old New York (2010). In 2020 A Soldier’s Play debuted on Broadway, and it…
- One of Life’s Slaves (work by Lie)
Jonas Lie: One of Life’s Slaves, 1895), which tells of the social misfortunes of a boy born out of wedlock, and Familien paa Gilje (1883; The Family at Gilje, 1920), a novel that deals with the position of women, the most popular question of his day. The…
- One of Our Conquerors (novel by Meredith)
George Meredith: Mature works. of George Meredith: One of Our Conquerors (1891) is probably the most difficult of his novels because of the indirect and cryptic style, metaphor, and long passages of interior monologue. Lord Ormont and His Aminta (1894), unlike its predecessor, was praised for the brilliancy and clarity of its…
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (film by Stevenson [1975])
Robert Stevenson: Films for Disney: In 1975 Stevenson directed One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing, a spy comedy about a bunch of English nannies (Helen Hayes, among others) trying to recover stolen secrets hidden in a dinosaur bone. His last film was The Shaggy D.A. (1976), a follow-up to the popular The Shaggy Dog…
- One of Ours (novel by Cather)
One of Ours, novel by Willa Cather, published in 1922. This story of a Nebraska farm boy who dies fighting in France in World War I took four years to write and was a best-seller in its time. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1923. Cather based the plot on letters written by a cousin who had died in World
- One of the Boys (album by Perry)
Katy Perry: Pop success: …powering sales for her album One of the Boys (2008). With its bouncy, sharp-tongued second single, “Hot N Cold,” also proving popular, the album—much of which Perry wrote herself—eventually registered sales of more than three million copies in the United States.
- One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (work by Clifton)
Lucille Clifton: …Everett Anderson’s Goodbye (1983), and One of the Problems of Everett Anderson (2001).
- One Piece (manga) (Japanese manga series)
One Piece (manga), Japanese manga series created, written, and illustrated by manga artist Oda Eiichiro. It debuted in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1997 and has been serialized in the magazine since then. One Piece follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his crew, the
- One Reed (Mesoamerican god)
Quetzalcóatl, (from Nahuatl quetzalli, “tail feather of the quetzal bird [Pharomachrus mocinno],” and coatl, “snake”), the Feathered Serpent, one of the major deities of the ancient Mexican pantheon. Representations of a feathered snake occur as early as the Teotihuacán civilization (3rd to 8th
- One Second (film by Zhang [2020])
Zhang Yimou: …included Yi miao zhong (2020; One Second) and Cliff Walkers (2021).
- One Secret Thing (poetry by Olds)
Sharon Olds: … (1999), The Unswept Room (2002), One Secret Thing (2008), Odes (2016), Arias (2019), and Balladz (2022). For Stag’s Leap (2012), which chronicles the 1997 dissolution of her marriage, she was awarded both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2016 Olds received the Academy of American Poets’ Wallace…
- One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (film by Varda [1977])
Agnès Varda: …L’Une chante, l’autre pas (1977; One Sings, the Other Doesn’t) and Sans toit ni loi (1985; Without Roof or Law, or Vagabond).
- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back (work by Lenin)
Marxism: Lenin: …vperyod, dva shaga nazad (1904; One Step Forward, Two Steps Back), Lenin compared the organizational principles of the Bolsheviks to those of the Mensheviks. After the failure of the Russian Revolution of 1905, he drew positive lessons for the future in Dve taktiki Sotsial-Demokraty v demokraticheskoy revolyutsi (1905; Two Tactics…
- One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro (poetry by Ferlinghetti)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: …oriented, as such titles as One Thousand Fearful Words for Fidel Castro (1961), Where Is Vietnam (1965), Tyrannus Nix? (1969), and Who Are We Now? (1976) suggest. Retrospective collections of his poems were published as Endless Life (1981) and These Are My Rivers (1995). In 1988 Ferlinghetti published
- One Thousand Guineas (English Classic horse race)
One Thousand Guineas, one of the five English Classic horse races, run over a straight mile (1.6 km) on the Rowley Mile course at the Newmarket (Suffolk) spring meeting. The race was first run in 1814. It is for three-year-old fillies and is run on the Friday following the Wednesday running of the